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Dan Deacon Center for the Arts Eagle Rock February 27, 2015 There were a handful of people more memorable than Dan Deacon at his Friday night concert at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. A man paced wildly in the back of the room, listening to his headphones...

Alle Norton is trying to explain her interest in 1980s pop music. She was born in 1990, so the decade isn't hers. "I don't know where that came from," she says. "Probably my dad." When Norton was young, she remembers him listening to Queen and The Bangles. That "musical energy"...

No one is ever sure how to pronounce Sahy Uhns. And according to Carl Madison Burgin, the man behind the moniker, that’s sort of the whole point. “I’m severely dyslexic,” Burgin confesses, over a Soyrizo Mexican omelette at a coffee shop near his home in Van Nuys. So one of...

There’s lightness to John Tejada’s new album Signs Under Test, out Feb. 2 on Kompakt. Not that we’re saying it’s lightweight or substance-deficient or any of those corny rock-crit concerns. No, the L.A.-based veteran electronic musician’s stuff is lighter than air, in a floating-free, mentally liberating kind of way –– it breathes...

Canadian music company Nettwerk celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, they've enlisted 14 of their current artists to cover songs from their extensive catalog. The resulting collection, due out Jan. 27, is called From Cover To Cover: 30 Years at Nettwerk, and might be the first...

What happens when visual artists decide to make pop music? In the case of 18+, you get sweetly intimate bedroom jams that double as abstract cultural commentaries. The members of the L.A. electronic duo — Justin Swinburne, 29, and Samia Mirza, 28 — don’t necessarily consider themselves musicians. But in...